Globbing (was Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008)
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Feb 12 10:20:46 PST 2008
:
:> it's called "|/" here) that works like xargs built-in.
:>=20
:> find . -name "*.c" |/ rm -f "%"
:>=20
find . -name "*.fubar" -delete
In anycase, I don't think people quite grasp that there is no solution
to the csh-globbing issue. You could allocate memory dynamically, sure,
and what happens when your glob pattern results in twenty million files?
or a billion files? You sit there twiddling your thumbs for four
hours while csh eats up all the memory on your machine and everything
comes to a grinding stop. It doesn't work.
People need to learn to use find, xargs, awk, etc.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon at backplane.com>
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